Treasure City Cemetery
White Pine County, Nevada

From Ely, the present county seat of White Pine County, take U.S. 50
west for 37 miles. Exit left and follow the road that shows the most travel
nine (9) miles into Hamilton. To this point, the road is easily navigated
by a passenger car but from Hamilton 4-wheel drive is required. I recommend
contacting the Forest Service before going in.

Treasure City is located about 1½ miles southeast of
the former county seat of White Pine County, Hamilton. It is located in
the Humboldt National Forest. There are many roads in this area and none
of them are marked or maintained. It is a mixture of privately owned,
and government managed land. The elevation is approximately 9,000 ft.

The cemetery is located on a hill above the road about 1/2 mile before
Treasure City with no markings and nothing visible from the road. There
is only one sandstone marker, that appears to be one placed at the foot
of a grave with the initials J.T.D. engraved on it. That is obviously
a J - and as you will see by my list of names - I found no J.T.D.! There
are numerous rock ruins at Treasure City.

The town was originally named Tesora and a post office with that name
opened on April 23, 1869. On Jun 15, 1869 the name was officially changed
to Treasure City. The town was at it's peak from 1869 through 1870.
Treasure City was abandoned for all practical purposed by 1878, but
there were still single miner's cabins with inhabitants.

I spent over a year acquiring the data for this cemetery from old newspaper
articles. The courthouse burned in January 1885 and all records were
lost. Nothing remains at the cemetery but a few fallen palings. I know
there are more buried in this cemetery than I have found. I welcome
any information someone might be willing to share with me.

The latest burial I found was Freethy in 1879. From the letter I received
concerning him, it appeared he was doing contract work with several
others but were having a rough time of it. Cemetery can probably be
dated from 1869 through 1880.